GTA 3.. first time you're allowed free reign through the city was just an amazing feeling. Then I found a jump onto the subway tracks and as I flew through the air in the car the game went into slow motion with a sweet angle. That was an amazing feeling the first time.

In GTA III, I accidentally discovered a fence outside of a hospital that I could run into at full speed in a Stinger and send the car back flipping in the air, landing in the parking lot below. I pulled off 4 back flips in flames.

Then there is the legend of my quarter mile jump in a tank. I still have the stat on a memory card. Really have to get a screen shot of that and send it to Rockstar.

The first time I rode a chopper in Vice City. So liberating.

Brown Thunder vigilante missions in VC and SA. I mastered helicopters and amassed incredible amounts of cash this way. This was all built on top of actually finding the attack chopper in Las Venturras. I don't know how I unlocked it in VC, but It just happened to appear one day on the helipad, but in SA, I saw it at a military base and devised a pretty straight forward plan to get it. I flew a plane real low and bailed midflight right above the chopper, hopped in immediately and yanked it out of the base as soon as it took flight. A short hop to the desert and it was open season on sitting ducks.

In SA, I remember I either finished a mission with next to no health left or dropped my wanted level on the mission. I got out the car and started walking away feeling safe when BOOM! Airplane crashes right in front of me and explodes. Dead.

I'll share only one IV story since I have dozens, but I was shooting at a guy as he was running from his flaming car. Shot him dead. I was walking toward the scene thinking the car would just explode harmlessly and I could peep the scene up close. The car exploded...and the hood came flying straight at me, struck me in the head with a hollow thud and knocked me to the ground. My jaw dropped...

GTA IV...must of been a glitch but i got up to 5 stars and while shooting it out with the cops i noticed they started shooting at someone else.It was an "invincible" pedestrian he was killing cops with his bare fists while cops were shooting him with every thing they had, but he wouldn't go down.Funny as hell.

In GTA IV I was working on the achievement for staying at the most wanted level for a certain amount of time (five minutes, I think). I was being chased around by cops (or maybe NOOSE) who were shooting my car. When my car finally caught on fire, I spotted a raised parking lot, so I drove over there, quickly got out and jumped up to the parking lot. Right as I was getting in a new car, the camera swivels around and I see two NOOSE vans pulling up next to my previous car. Right as they stop their vans, the car explodes, and it takes them out before I launched over their wreckage.

I had been trying to get that achievement off and on for a few days, and that moment helped make it finally happen.

In GTA IV I was working on the achievement for staying at the most wanted level for a certain amount of time (five minutes, I think). I was being chased around by cops (or maybe NOOSE) who were shooting my car. When my car finally caught on fire, I spotted a raised parking lot, so I drove over there, quickly got out and jumped up to the parking lot. Right as I was getting in a new car, the camera swivels around and I see two NOOSE vans pulling up next to my previous car. Right as they stop their vans, the car explodes, and it takes them out before I launched over their wreckage.

I had been trying to get that achievement off and on for a few days, and that moment helped make it finally happen.

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It took me awhile to get it too..i ended finding an area that only had one entrance to it.I held them off with grenades and just shot down the police helicopters with the rocket launcher.

Best story was when we were flying in the helicopter and my friend bailed out. I tried to lower the helicopter enough to see if he could get back in but I crashed it in the water right on top of him. we lived but had to swim to shore. fucking hilarious.

5. Three-Leaf Clover mission in GTA IV. The game blew me away when it came to the realism, the graphics, the story, and the attention to detail that Rockstar took years into adding to the game. But what really made me fall in love with the game was the bank heist mission. This is my favorite mission in all GTA games. It was so good that I made a save file just so I can replay it whenever I want. The only negative thing about the mission was the fact that it ended. Thankfully the internet agreed and expressed their love for it so much that Rockstar decided to add more of it into GTA V. I don't even know how to express my excitement for this. If GTA IV was the game that Rockstar created to get their feet wet in this generation of consoles, then V will be the game they've always wanted to make, and the game we've always wanted, period.

4. Being betrayed by Don Salvatore in GTA III was a moment to remember. I did not expect to see any twists thrown at me. The Don gave me a mission to do, so I went to do it only to get blown up as soon as I got into the car they wanted me to jack. Feeling puzzled, I did the mission again, only this time I paid attention to the pager message scrolling across the screen, telling me it was a trap. Again, I was confused by it so I took the other route instead. As soon as I realized I was betrayed, the story of GTA III took a serious turn for me and I loved every bit of the story after that. Story wise, that moment was when I became hooked.

3. Driving around San Andreas while bumping "Today Was A Good Day", "Ain't Nothing But A G-Thang", "Hellraiser", and "Cult of Personality". San Andreas is huge and loaded with things to do. Always loved the hotel raid mission. Loved the jet pack and skydiving. Loved the story and CJ's character. And absolutely loved driving across the countryside and being lost into the huge state. So many amazing moments, but driving around the state while listening to the 90s songs that I grew up with and being immersed is a highlight from one of the greatest game ever made.

2. Flying a helicopter for the first time in Vice City. Listening to "Billie Jean" as I got into a car for the first time, and running over pedestrians while "I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight" was playing, and the betrayal of a friend at the end as well as taking over a mansion are all amazing moments. But flying a helicopter the first time (and totally crashing as learning the controls took me a while to get a hang of) was such a thrilling moment as I started to realize how big Vice City was when I looked down in the horizon.

1.Playing GTA III for the first time. The first ten minutes is one of the greatest moments in gaming for me. I barely knew anything about the game other than you can drive cars and shoot people. When I started playing and got in a car, the overwhelming and surprising feeling came over me once I realized I was free to do what I wanted. Old lady walking by? I wonder if I can hit her with this baseball bat. Driving around to see just how much freedom I was given? Sure, and holy hell these radio stations keep on playing! Just how much music and chatting is there? Hell, how in the world is this game running on this dvd disc? And how the hell did 12 hours go by without realizing it? All those feelings I had from the first night playing the game and it was incredible. It's no wonder why GTA III will always be my favorite game from the series, and easily in my top ten games of all-time.

Vice City
- when the rest of the map is unlocked and you cross the bridge to see the rest of the city
- when you kill Ricardo Diaz and take over his business and mansion!
- the music
- VCPR and Maurice Chavez - absolutely hilarious
-The biker gang missions

GTA IV
- Brucie!!!
- The whole Liberty City is an artistic and technological marvel
GTA IV is not about moments but about the experience in total.

Realizing a street in vice city that I have been playing then going down the streets of miami myself and having that moment of Holy Shit this is exactly like the game! It was insane they do a great job of creating the Cities.

Also the mansion/Scarface mission in Vice City was the best for me. Along with Sniping heads creating a fountain

In GTA IV I was working on the achievement for staying at the most wanted level for a certain amount of time (five minutes, I think). I was being chased around by cops (or maybe NOOSE) who were shooting my car. When my car finally caught on fire, I spotted a raised parking lot, so I drove over there, quickly got out and jumped up to the parking lot. Right as I was getting in a new car, the camera swivels around and I see two NOOSE vans pulling up next to my previous car. Right as they stop their vans, the car explodes, and it takes them out before I launched over their wreckage.

I had been trying to get that achievement off and on for a few days, and that moment helped make it finally happen.

I remember I had bought a ps2 specifically to play Metal Gear Solid 2. A few weeks before it came out I went to a buddies house who had just bought GTA3. I had heard of the game but had not really seen it. After playing the first few minutes I went out and bought it right away. MGS2 came out a few weeks later but sat on my shelf as I couldn't put GTA3 down.
I made a pledge to not use any cheats to beat the game. Those last few missions were a serious bitch, but I am glad I did it.
I bought it last year on the ipad and unfortunately the game hasn't quite aged well, but some great memories of that game, and Vice City the next year.

I remember once I was dating this chick and I had fallen asleep trying to beat a certain mission, this was after I had broken up with her btw.....I wake up and the crazy chick is laying in my bed staring at me, I kicked her out and proceeded to beat the mission.....

I remember once I was dating this chick and I had fallen asleep trying to beat a certain mission, this was after I had broken up with her btw.....I wake up and the crazy chick is laying in my bed staring at me, I kicked her out and proceeded to beat the mission.....

The moments with my friends. "Chaos!" we used to say refering to GTAIII. We used to play all night (literally) creating chaos and random things until dawn, from time to time we took a break playing the missions, the free roam was fantastic.

Vice city, my favorite GTA, the 80's era, a magical soundtrack, the atmosphere of the city and the gangs. The huge upgrade that were the bikes, the katana, pure genius!

Loved GTASA, I played that game for hours but I feel that I didn't juice that game as I should have, at least not as GTAIII or GTAVC. Bought the game for PC to fix that.

III was the first game where I lost dozens of hours doing absolutely nothing.

Riding in a cab in IV was more relaxing and enjoyable than it could ever sound.

A key Euphoria moment in IV (Because my main goal in that game was to push the physics as far as I could in order to see how deep the dynamic animation system really is) was when I pulled a guy out of his vehicle on that hill in front of Roman's business. I got in his car and slowly accelerated as the guy ran up to try and take his car back. I slammed on the gas to get away..., but he held onto the door and was dragged a good quarter mile before I scraped him off against a car going in the opposite direction.

I can't believe I forgot this one! This was a few hours after I finished the most wanted lists on each island in the police vehicle when I discovered that I could do vigilante missions of my choosing endlessly (). I immediately took a liking to Gang Activity. One particular mission brought to a parking lot where a group of heavily armed thugs were going about their business with their stable of vehicles. The way the lot was set up, the entrance was down a hill with a 20 foot wall at the highest point and some cover on that elevated sidewalk.

I take cover and begin unloading over the wall as the thugs begin taking cover behind the vehicles. Having them right where I want them, I begin blindly lobbing grenades over the wall. As they begin going off, I can only see the tops of the explosions rising above the wall when suddenly one of the thugs caught in the explosions gently rises above the wall back first then falls back to earth.

My best moment (I'll keep it limited to GTA4) is playing free roam with my buddy. We take a truck on one end of an airport runway, and a motorcycle on the other, and drive towards each other full speed just to see how high up the motorcyclist can be tossed.

In GTA IV I was working on the achievement for staying at the most wanted level for a certain amount of time (five minutes, I think). I was being chased around by cops (or maybe NOOSE) who were shooting my car. When my car finally caught on fire, I spotted a raised parking lot, so I drove over there, quickly got out and jumped up to the parking lot. Right as I was getting in a new car, the camera swivels around and I see two NOOSE vans pulling up next to my previous car. Right as they stop their vans, the car explodes, and it takes them out before I launched over their wreckage.

I had been trying to get that achievement off and on for a few days, and that moment helped make it finally happen.

Buying GTA3 close to release date.... I was in my senior year of high school and needed a ride. My mom took me to the store, I asked for the game, and the clerk said "Get it now before it gets banned." My mom just looked at me and said "What are you getting yourself in to?"

GTA4 was the first and only midnight release that I've attended. I worked overnights and I was off that night.

Samuel L Jackson smoking weed in SA. He was supposed to be a cop man...

Beating up a crack dealer in GTA3 within a few minutes of starting the game. That is when I knew I could pretty much do anything